Question Depicting fighting off sexual harassment

[wongry]

This is a question for content moderators. Please move this if it isn't the right forum.

I'm planning a scene where partway through the story, a hero saves someone from sexual harassment by fighting the perpetrator. However, I'm unsure if the perpetrator's groping, antagonistic sexual talk, or dry humping, is against the non-consent/violence content rules. The depiction is intended to be brief and without penetration (to be non-gratifying), and portrayed as obvious wrongdoing to justify the hero's intervention.

The earnest sexual content elsewhere in the scene will be clearly fully consensual. In effect, a 'scumbags get beat up, heroes get laid' contrast.

If such content isn't allowed then I'd rather not waste effort making it.

 

[hazmhox]

Talk, or dialog... in a story driven concept. Is not a problem.
Groping a ass cheek in a professional/public environment with dressed characters, to contextualize the situation is ok.
The intent, story, dialog as to clearly depict the fact it's wrong.

Now, anything further than that is problematic and is a non-consensual representation of sex.
Dry Humping is a sexual act, and if it's not consensual, is forbidden by the TOS.

I would suggest probably leaning on a small groping situation and probably simply doing some body language from the male character (I suppose?) that shows his attempt at getting favors (hand on the wall, getting close etc...) but definitely staying away of more obvious actions or animations.

To have more input on this, I'm summoning @AshAuryn @VaMDeV and @VaMRainey

 

[wongry]

Talk, or dialog... in a story driven concept. Is not a problem.
Groping a ass cheek in a professional/public environment with dressed characters, to contextualize the situation is ok.
The intent, story, dialog as to clearly depict the fact it's wrong.

Now, anything further than that is problematic and is a non-consensual representation of sex.
Dry Humping is a sexual act, and if it's not consensual, is forbidden by the TOS.

I would suggest probably leaning on a small groping situation and probably simply doing some body language from the male character (I suppose?) that shows his attempt at getting favors (hand on the wall, getting close etc...) but definitely staying away of more obvious actions or animations.

To have more input on this, I'm summoning @AshAuryn @VaMDeV and @VaMRainey

Thanks for weighing in, hazmhox. On rare occasion I notice scenes on hub that skirt close to non-consent if interpreted a certain way. So I wasn't sure where the line is, and what is a good standard for this community.

 

[AshAuryn]

Thanks for weighing in, hazmhox. On rare occasion I notice scenes on hub that skirt close to non-consent if interpreted a certain way. So I wasn't sure where the line is, and what is a good standard for this community.

Depictions of sexual assault definitely fall in the category of violating our TOS regardless of context. If you want to show a hero rescuing someone from a jerk, you can portray a jerk without portraying an actual illegal act.

real talk: It's like adding something you shouldn't add and then putting a banner in the scene that says "Don't look at this, it's bad!". This seems more like asking about a loophole, and unfortunately there are no loopholes to this policy. Ultimately these policies exist to protect members of our international community from getting in trouble due to obscenity laws which can vary from country to country.

 

[wongry]

Depictions of sexual assault definitely fall in the category of violating our TOS regardless of context. If you want to show a hero rescuing someone from a jerk, you can portray a jerk without portraying an actual illegal act.

real talk: It's like adding something you shouldn't add and then putting a banner in the scene that says "Don't look at this, it's bad!". This seems more like asking about a loophole, and unfortunately there are no loopholes to this policy. Ultimately these policies exist to protect members of our international community from getting in trouble due to obscenity laws which can vary from country to country.

Thanks AshAuryn. Will steer the idea in a different direction.

The original thought was to show a martial arts hero in action, but needed a premise too justify it (i.e. starting a fight for something heinous, not just littering or something).

But sexual harassment is too heavy... I'll pivot to something cleaner. Thanks for making it clear!